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Softly, Softly is a British television police procedural series produced by the BBC and screened on BBC 1 from January 1966. It was created as a spin-off from the series Z-Cars, which ended its fifth series run in December 1965. The series took its title from the proverb "Softly, softly, catchee monkey", the motto of Lancashire Constabulary ...
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Softly Softly: With Stratford Johns, Frank Windsor, Norman Bowler, John Barron. Thie West Country police force solving local crime. its a spin-off from another BBC drama series, Z Cars (1962).
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Softly, Softly is a British television drama series, produced by the BBC and screened on BBC 1 from January 1966. It centred around the work of regional crime squads, plain-clothes CID officers based in the fictional region of Wyvern, supposedly in the Bristol area of England.
Jul 29, 2016 · Peter Knight, Daily Telegraph (1966): The BBC’s new television crime series, ‘Softly, Softly’, which opened on BBC1 last night, is a legitimate, well-bred offspring of its predecessor ‘Z Cars’. It has the same rough, abrasive realism, the same sharp, prickly dialogue, the same terse economy of style. But it is also a development of ...
Softly, Softly. 1974 - United Kingdom. One of British TV's first crime-busting double acts starring Stratford Johns as the no-nonsense Charlie Barlow, a superior officer not adverse to pounding his suspects into submission, and Frank Windsor as his gentler sidekick John Watt, first became household names in Troy Kennedy Martin's Z-Cars .
